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From: jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway)
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Subject: Snubbing emulators
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Date: 31 Oct 90 16:54:28 GMT
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wieser@cs-sun-fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Bernhard Wieser) writes:
>I would like to have
>my software NOT run when it sees an emulator.

Well as long as you are going to make arbitrary decisions about what
machines are fit to be graced with your software, why not read the SCSI ID
of any hard disks and make sure that they are genuine Apple?  After all,
if someone buys a non-Apple disk they're not supporting Apple, right?  And
don't forget to disallow things like third-party accellerator and graphics
cards.  After all, if the user wants a faster machine or better graphics,
how dare he buy third-party when he should be contributing to Apple's
profits?

And while you're at it, why limit yourself to hardware checks?  Scan the
user's disk and refuse to run if you find any disk copying programs, because
only pirates use those, right?  How about having the user fill in a questionare
and disabling the program if you don't agree with his political beliefs?

Funny, in the IBM PC world, new programs are sold every day that omit these
vital safeguards, and IBM doesn't seem to have suffered because of it.

Ed Hanway
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